She is known for having photographed various celebrities of Argentine cinema, such as Tita Merello, Carmen Miranda, Zully Moreno and Mirtha Legrand; as well as other cultural personalities like Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda and Eva Perón.

Heinrich was born in Darmstadt and moved to Larroque, Entre Ríos Province, with her family in 1926, fleeing from the First World War. In 1930 she opened her first studio in Buenos Aires. Two years later she moved to a larger studio, and began photographing actors from the Teatro Colón. Her photos were also the cover of magazines such as El Hogar, Sintonía, Alta Sociedad, Radiolandia and Antena for forty years.

Heinrich's work was shown in New York for the first time in 2016 at Nailya Alexander Gallery in the show "Annemarie Heinrich: Glamour and Modernity in Buenos Aires."

Heinrich is considered one of Argentina's most important photographers.

Farnham Maxwell-Lyte, English chemist born in 1828, the pioneer of a number of techniques in photographic processing. As a photographer he is known for his views of the French Pyrenees.

Maxwell-Lyte was 16 when he first came across photography, hearing the news of William Henry Fox Talbot's invention of the calotype. In 1846, he entered Christ's College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in chemical engineering in 1851 and MA in 1863. On leaving Cambridge he became a mining engineer and was an Associate of the Society of Civil Engineers and a Fellow of the Chemical Society.

In 1853, he travelled to Luz-Saint-Sauveur in the Pyrenees on account of his bad health. He settled in Pau, and frequented an English circle where he met a group of photographers including John Stewart, Jean-Jacques Heilmann, Pierre Langlumé and Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard, who were known as the "Group of Pau". He lived in France from 1853 until 1880. In 1854, he was one of the founders of the Société française de photographie and he was also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.

He made many improvements to the technique of photographic processing, working with collodion and wax paper, and introducing a process of his own invention which he called métagélatine; this process was adopted by several photographers.

Maxwell-Lyte took scenic photographs in the period just before commercial photographers started to take and market mass-produced views in the 1860s.

Ann Chwatsky, American photographer and educator born in 1942 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

From 1987 - 1997 she was the Director of the Master Workshop in Art at Southampton College, Long Island University. She has been a Visiting Artist in colleges as diverse as Oklahoma State University to the University of Patagonia Argentina, from the New School in New York City to Universities in Moscow, Kiev and Bejing, China and Korea. Ann has co-led the Photography as Art/China program at New York University.

Her publications include the book, Four Seasons of Shaker Life, text by Gerald Wertkin, photos by Ann Chwatsky, which was published by Simon and Schuster and tells the story of the last remaining Shakers of the Sabbathday Lake Community, Maine. Her other book is The Man in the Street, forward by Pete Hamil, photos and interviews by Ann Chwatsky. This work is concerned with the physicality of labor. The viewer experiences the sensuous variety of men. Her latest projects include a black and white series on Androgyny, the blending of the genders and most recently new digital montage pieces which are narrative in nature, a series of Interior Landscapes, large Iris Digital prints called, When I Was a Girl (such as When I Was a Girl, I Was Always Hiding). The lastest work is Curtains. Her photographs are included in other book collections, such as Working Women, Pregnancy and other titles.

Photographs by Ann Chwatsky have been exhibited widely in galleries and museums in New York City, the Hamptons, Texas, and California.

Friedrich Albert Schwartz, German photographer born in Berlin in 1836.

In 1860 he opened his own studio on the Friedrichstraße. Photographic assignments of industrial plants, such as the Borsig and Schwartzkopff or Versorgungsbauten factories, or the municipal gas factories of the Gitschiner street, led him to architectural photography. He also received commisions to photograph machinery, for example locomotives.

In 1867 the Prince Charles of Prussia granted him the title of a photographer of the court.

Partly at the request of the municipal authorities, partly on his own, Schwartz began capturing in images the transformation of Berlin into a modern metropolis. In addition to documenting the historic urban landscape, he also made photos of new architectural works in progress, such as the construction of the Anhalter Station hall.

Joan Ramon Bonet i Verdaguer, Spanish photographer and singer-songwriter in Catalan language born in 1944. He was one of the members of Els Setze Jutges.

Son of the journalist and writer Juan Bonet, was the singer of Els Setze Jutges. He sang between 1963 and 1967 and recorded three solo albums and one with the band. He composed many songs, but in the late 1960s he abandoned music and focused on photography.

He ventured into advertising, but above all he devoted himself to the illustration of catalogs and art books.

In this last field he achieved great notoriety, as it is documented in numerous catalogs of Joan Miró, Guinovart, Klarwein, Bechtold, Robert Berthelot, Eusebio Sempere, Carlos Mensa, Andreu Terrades, Mompó, Joan Bennàssar, Chillida, Rafa Forteza and José María Sicilia among others. In 1975 he made his first solo exhibition, "Retrats", at Galeries Costa (Palma), followed by "Gent de Teatre" in Sala Rialto (Palma). His collective exhibitions include "Palma, ciutat oberta" (1982), "Memòries urbanes", "7 Fotògrafs" (Palau Solleric, Palma, 1987), "Fotografía a Balears" (Centro de Cultura Sa Nostra, Palma, 1989) "Arquitectura i paisatge" (Official College of Architects of the Balearic Islands, 1989), "Noves imatges" and "La fotografia a Mallorca" (Sa Nostra, 1992). In 2000 he was selected for the exhibition "Photography contemporània a Mallorca", promoted by Projecte Llevant. In December 2006 he published the first volume of "Patios de Palma" (Guillermo Canals Editor), whose second volume would was published in December 2007, when he was awarded the Medal of Honor of the Parliament of Catalonia for his contribution to Catalan culture.

Sanjog Rai (सञ्जोग राई), Nepalese photographer of art and fashion, born in 1989, currently working as a freelance photographer in Milan, Italy. He started his photography career at the age of 19 and became the first artistic nude photographer of Nepal at the age of 21. An interview published in ECS Living magazine said that the decision made by him, the path he chose and the opportunities which came were a happenstance, but he made the most out of it to make himself what he is today."

His works has been featured in various national and international magazines and blogs, as well as the Vogue Italia website.

Kassian Cephas or Kassian Céphas, Javanese photographer of the court of the Yogyakarta Sultanate born in 1845.

He was the first indigenous person from Indonesia to become a professional photographer and was trained at the request of Sultan Hamengkubuwana VI (r. 1855–1877). After becoming a court photographer in as early 1871, he began working on portrait photography for members of the royal family, as well as documentary work for the Dutch Archaeological Union (Archaeologische Vereeniging). Cephas was recognized for his contributions to preserving Java's cultural heritage through membership in the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies and an honorary gold medal of the Order of Orange-Nassau. Cephas and his wife Dina Rakijah raised four children. Their eldest son Sem continued the family's photography business until his own death in 1918.

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